Senior HR Officer - BP
Job Title: Senior HR Officers
Starting Salary: £42,516 per annum (pro rata for part time) - Pay award pending
Hours: 2 x Roles, 30 hours and 24 hours
Location: Stevenage
Contract Type: Fixed Term/Secondment
Directorate: Resources
About the team
We are looking to recruit two enthusiastic, experienced and solution focused Senior HR Officers to join the Business Partner Team, providing a HR service within the Adult Care Services team.
The Business Partner team are focused on understanding the business needs and working with the Service leaders to shape future workforce strategy and strategic plans. Ensuring HR interventions delivered are aligned with the Business Plans and using a holistic approach to support a wide range of projects across all directorates.
You will be required to prioritise workloads and deliver at pace, providing internal and external stakeholders with support and clear risk assessed advice on a wide range of Employee Relations matters in line with policy and employment law.
About the role
Responsibilities in the role will include:
- Working with all areas of management, developing a wide network of relationships for their stakeholder area to be able to provide a broad and complex service, consistent with expert, accurate, and best practice advice with adherence to all policy, processes, and guidance, including being able to challenge manager’s decision-making process if necessary to provide the best customer-oriented service.
- Holding a high volume of Employment Relations cases and supporting Managers to case resolution.
- Deputising for the HR Manager for their area, acting as a key contact for stakeholders and ensuring that the service work plan is delivered in their absence. Additionally, the role holder will help identify any areas of improvement in service delivery, utilising experience, and industry knowledge, as well as communicating the changes necessary appropriately and ensuring implementation of those changes.
- Acting as a driver for innovation in the service for cost effectiveness and best practice standards.
- The role may ask for supervision of junior members of the team, being able to measure the effectiveness of HR interventions or stakeholder engagement to identify both own and junior colleagues’ areas for improvement.
This is a fast-paced environment therefore you will need to be able to work under pressure and be extremely well organised, taking a pro-active approach to your workload. Main objectives of this role are to:
- Lead Organisational Change (Restructures & TUPE) and embed change projects, this will be particularly on a larger scale within the Projects role.
- Provide advice, updates and direction (sometimes high level and complex) on all employee relations matters (including ill health; disciplinary; performance capability; grievance; probation) to service managers, employees and colleagues.
- Review Management Information
- Matrix management of other HR teams and project leads across HCC
- Feed into People Strategy and Strategic Workforce Plans
About you
Essential:
- All role holders are qualified professionals, actively working towards a professional qualification or possess relevant work-based experience.
- You will be a technical specialist in HR employee relations, with substantial experience and detailed knowledge.
Supporting our workforce is a challenging, fast-paced and rewarding role. If this sounds like the opportunity for you, we would love to hear from you!
We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.
This job role is Level 12. Please locate the job profile here:
Job profiles - Corporate services
To hear more about this opportunity please contact Helen.Southwell@hertfordshire.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.
Interview Date: 22nd July 2026
How to apply
As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.
Secondment
This role is open to secondments for eligible employees who work for HCC. If you wish to apply on a secondment basis, you must have your line manager’s approval before submitting your application. You will be asked to confirm this within your application form. If you are not eligible for a secondment (e.g., you are currently on a fixed‑term contract that would end before this positions ends) or you indicate that your manager cannot support a secondment, your application will be considered on a fixed‑term contract basis instead.
Additional information
We are changing
Hertfordshire County Councilis undergoing Local Government Reorganisation (LGR). If you are employed by Hertfordshire County on 1 April 2028, it is expected that most roles will transfer to the newly-created unitary councils on existing terms and conditions under TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings – Protection of Employment) principles.
LGR is one of the biggest changes we will face in a generation. It will reshape how we work and how services are organised and gives us a real opportunity to build something better. To find out more, visit https://www.hertfordshire-lgr.co.uk/
Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.
Salary range
- £48,226 - £53,460 per year